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Post by redincolorado on Nov 11, 2011 19:04:10 GMT -5
To all you other Vets and current servicemen and women, A HUGE thank you
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Post by mikegarrison on Nov 11, 2011 19:13:31 GMT -5
We had a minute of silence here at 11 am. I guess this is a normal thing in the UK on Rememberance Day. Today was unusual because it was 11/11/11, which seemed to give it some special significance for some people.
ps. This should be moved to Off The Net
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Post by Phaedrus on Nov 11, 2011 21:58:56 GMT -5
Armistice Day (also known as Remembrance Day) is on 11 November and commemorates the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning—the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918. While this official date to mark the end of the war reflects the cease fire on the Western Front, hostilities continued in other regions, especially across the former Russian Empire and in parts of the old Ottoman Empire.
The date was declared a national holiday in many allied nations, to commemorate those members of the armed forces who were killed during war.
After World War II, the name of the holiday was changed to Veterans Day in the United States and to Remembrance Day in countries of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Armistice Day remains an official holiday in France and Belgium, known also as the Day of Peace in the Flanders Fields.
In many parts of the world, people take a two-minute moment of silence at 11:00 a.m. local time as a sign of respect for the roughly 20 million people who died in the war.
From the outset, many veterans in many countries also used silence to pay homage to departed comrades. The toast of "Fallen" or "Absent Comrades" has always been honoured in silence at New Zealand veteran functions, while the news of a member’s death has similarly been observed in silence at meetings.
________________________________________________________ We are quite good at speaking out in gratitude to our veterans and remembering our fallen troops. When are we going to get good at ceasing hostilities and end all wars?
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Post by ja on Nov 11, 2011 22:45:20 GMT -5
To all you other Vets and current servicemen and women, A HUGE thank you Son, thank you for giving 3 years of your life to our Country!
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Post by redincolorado on Nov 11, 2011 23:17:24 GMT -5
To all you other Vets and current servicemen and women, A HUGE thank you Son, thank you for giving 3 years of your life to our Country! I was lucky enough to get in on some world history while I served during the Vietnam conflict. I was on the carrier, the USS Hornet when it was the primary recovery ship for Apollos 11 & 12. Apollo 11 was the first men to walk on the moon. We picked them up. Ole Tricky Dicky came aboard to welcome them back to Terra Firma. I've got a gazillion color slides stored away from that little piece of history.
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Post by pogoball on Nov 11, 2011 23:49:08 GMT -5
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